Affiliation:
1. Plant Science and Technology College Beijing University of Agriculture Beijing 102206 China
2. Beijing Key Laboratory for Agricultural Application and New Technique Beijing University of Agriculture Beijing 102206 China
3. College of Life Sciences Capital Normal University Beijing 100048 China
Abstract
ABSTRACTSalt stress is a major abiotic stress which severely hinders crop production. However, the regulatory network controlling tomato resistance to salt remains unclear. Here, we found that the tomato WRKY transcription factor WRKY57 acted as a negative regulator in salt stress response by directly attenuating the transcription of salt‐responsive genes (SlRD29B and SlDREB2) and an ion homeostasis gene (SlSOS1). We further identified two VQ‐motif containing proteins SlVQ16 and SlVQ21 as SlWRKY57‐interacting proteins. SlVQ16 positively, while SlVQ21 negatively modulated tomato resistance to salt stress. SlVQ16 and SlVQ21 competitively interacted with SlWRKY57 and antagonistically regulated the transcriptional repression activity of SlWRKY57. Additionally, the SlWRKY57‐SlVQ21/SlVQ16 module was involved in the pathway of phytohormone jasmonates (JAs) by interacting with JA repressors JA‐ZIM domain (JAZ) proteins. These results provide new insights into how the SlWRKY57‐SlVQ21/SlVQ16 module finely tunes tomato salt tolerance.
Subject
Plant Science,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Biochemistry
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